on the one hand, if she was a white male cop, they might not have charged her at all
on the other hand, if she wasn’t a cop, nobody would spend a moment listening to her REALLY GOOD AND TOTALLY LEGIT REASON /s for murdering her neighbor and planting drugs in his apartment
Yer not frum arownd heer, arr ya?
One meme Guyger saved on Pinterest read: “People are so ungrateful — no one ever thanks me for having the patience not to kill them.”
Another Pinterest post read: “I wear all black to remind you not to mess with me, because I’m already dressed for your funeral.” Guyger commented beneath the image, “Yeah I got meh a gun, a shovel and an gloves if i were u back da f---- up and get out of me f---- a—.”
Jurors saw text messages from Guyger’s phone sent as she worked a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Dallas in 2018. When she received a message asking when the parade ended, she responded, “When MLK is dead…oh wait…”
Now, I’m not surprised a cop was acting that way, but really, cops should not be acting that way.
Yeah, some of that might be gallows work humour, but it sounds like she might have gone over the top with that.
I follow a couple of cops on Twitter, and usually they joke about what they’re going to do to the colleague who left the food wrappers and empty coffee cups in the cruiser the previous shift.
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This exceptional verdict is due in no small part to a diverse jury pool — many of whom shared a racial background with Botham Jean. Of the 12 jurors and four alternates, seven were black, five were non-black people of color, and four were white.
And, I think this might explain the verdict. Diversity matters.
I’m surprised the prosecutor was presenting relevant evidence and trying to win
wow. that’s some incredible compassion going on there.
I was not sure what I thought about it. There seemed to be a lot of Jesus involved and hard to tell if it was the Jesus of real compassion or the Jesus who everyone invokes to show their goodness. Maybe a little of both.
i can’t say. but i just think in the moment, if it were me, i’d be hard-pressed to make the same gesture, so i found it inspiring.
if a black man killed a white woman in her home for no apparent reason, how many years would he get
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I think this is worth posting here…
As an individual act, it’s amazing and commendable, and as he said, it’s not about the system, but about what he needs. It does not nor should it absolve her or the system that allowed this to happen.
This was useful. Reminds me of the Auschwitz survivor who was part of Mengele’s experiments on twins and her work with forgiveness. It is complicated. A lot of Jews are upset with her stance, but to her, it is the only way to free herself from this tie to a man who she never wanted to be associated with, to take control of her own life.
The whole forgiveness thing makes me twitchy because a) it’s pushed/forced on so many survivors, which just makes it a tool for more suffering and b) it makes so many assumptions about the people who don’t forgive.
I’ve seen a lack of forgiveness used to try to silence child abuse survivors telling the truth about what happened to them. It’s standard in church sexual abuse cases for the victim to be pressured to forgive their abuser.
And what does “forgiveness” mean in these cases? It means the victim can’t talk about what happened anymore, because of they do it’s “proof” they haven’t “let go”. If you so much as state what happened, you’re “still angry”, no matter how dispassionately you may state the facts – indeed, no matter how you actually feel.
I’ve forgiven someone for doing something awful to me exactly once… and it led me to years of more, and worse, misery.
If forgiveness is an individual choice freely made, well, so long as it causes no harm.
Anything else is, um, unforgivably wrong.
ETA: autocorrect
This… really doesn’t look good.
An armed society is a safe society. Right?
what’s more, i noticed there were a couple shootings this weekend with barely a mention by national media. we’ve crossed into the “it’s not worth reporting on” level complacency with this.
That… weirdly may be a good thing. There’s already UK studies showing these “grand gesture” type shootings go down when they don’t attract as much media coverage. The mass media has already helped with that a bit by focusing more on the victims rather than the shooter.
I just hope the conclusions from the study hold.
yeah, that’s a good point. if shooters are motivated by a level of notoriety (and it seems like they are), then ignoring it definitely plays against that. there’s also that “contagious” element of shootings, with one seeming to incite another. so less media attention might quell them.
maybe. hopefully.